Senior Software Engineer-Platform Engineer

At Adtalem Global Education, we seek to empower students and members to achieve their goals, find success and make inspiring contributions to our global community. Adtalem is a leading healthcare educator that partners with organizations to proactively address future workforce needs and empowers career development with access to world-class academic curriculums, certifications and training programs across the medical and healthcare industries.

Adtalem institutions and companies include: American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Chamberlain University, Ross University School of Medicine, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, and Walden University. (NYSE: ATGE; member S&P MidCap 400 Index) For more information, please visit adtalem.com.

 

We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer with experience in developing, deploying, and maintaining DevOps tooling and infrastructure to make the software delivery system run seamlessly. The Senior Platform Engineer will be responsible for implementing cloud platforms and DevOps tooling to improve the developer experience. The ideal candidate will have a foundational knowledge of containerization, CI/CD patterns, scriptwriting, and knowledge of distributed systems and architectures.

• Build scalable infrastructure to manage CI systems (both GCP and AWS) and applications.
• Minimize risk of reliability related failure outcomes as pertaining to durability, availability, performance.
• Contribute to building automation tools to detect and remediate system health and prevent those issues from reoccurring.
• Contribute to building automation to help with capacity planning to scale cloud infrastructure.
• Advocate for the build and deploy applications using Containers, Kubernetes, and server-less technologies.
• Partner with architecture and development teams when creating and automating cloud native technologies, deploying applications, and provisioning cloud native infrastructure.
• Experience working with software development team that create microservices and distributed applications.
• Implement and advocate the enterprise CI/CD strategy with the use of Orchestration tools, code repos, antifactory, test automation integrations, code security scans, and various tool chains.
• Establish repeatable design patterns using code.
• Partner with Architecture to establish enterprise standards and governance as it relates to developer tool sets and experiences.
• Aggressively work to operationalize the support of newly developed software with our technical service delivery partners.
• Partner with Software Engineering teams on improving the build-deploy capabilities associated with CI/CD and associated DevOps standards improving the software engineering tools & processes.
• Partner with Software Engineering and QA to continually improve the SDLC process for fast feedback loops and shorter code release cycles.
• Automation mindset (scripting, UIPath, Power Automate, Power BI, etc.)
• Providing level-3 support in triaging and debugging of CI pipelines, build failures, and other supporting services.
• Participate in periodic on-call duty to handle availability and efficiency of the continuous integration infrastructure.
• Gather context while following runbooks and standard process to create incident tickets and escalate, as necessary.
• Updating defined runbooks and standard processes as needed.

• BS or higher in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience.
• Eight (8) plus years of working knowledge of DevOps and application deployment processes.
• Four (4) plus years’ experience configuring and debugging automated CI/CD pipelines (experience with GitHub is preferred).
• Fundamental knowledge of version control (Git).
• Demonstrated scripting experience (Shell, Bash, Python).
• Experience integrating CI with GCP cloud infrastructure.
• Excellent troubleshooting and system / network debugging skills.
• Advanced knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with Terraform and YAML are preferred; CloudFormation or Cloud Deployment Manager, are acceptable.
• Experience with microservices, distributed applications, and various development patterns
• Working experience with AWS and/or GCP.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker.
• Define and implement application metrics for proactive issue identification and performance bottlenecks.
• Keep up with the latest trends and tools in this field to ensure their organizations remain competitive.
• Experience leveraging automation toolsets such as with UIPath, Powershell scripting, bash scripting, Power Automate, etc.
• Automating solutions from Root cause analysis.

In support of the pay transparency laws enacted across the country, the expected salary range for this position is between $82364.67 and $149076.17. Actual pay will be adjusted based on job-related factors permitted by law, such as experience and training; geographic location; licensure and certifications; market factors; departmental budgets; and responsibility. Our Talent Acquisition Team will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements. The position qualifies for the below benefits.

Adtalem offers a robust suite of benefits including:

• Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• 401k Retirement Program + 6% employer match
• Participation in Adtalem’s Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy
• 12 Paid Holidays
  
  For more information related to our benefits please visit: https://careers.adtalem.com/us/en/benefits.
  
  You are also eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

We are proud to be an EEO employer M/F/D/V. At Adtalem, we welcome everyone and have a strong commitment towards diversity and inclusion. We encourage our Colleagues to be their true authentic selves and support laws that prohibit discrimination everywhere we do business. We also maintain a drug-free workplace.